Pre-seed investors

Brainbox.vc

Accelerator

Founded by James Bruegger, brainbox.vc provides hands-on strategic and operational support to entrepreneurs during the crucial first 18 months of a startup's life. We provide extra brainpower to help entrepreneurs solve their most pressing issues. Not sure it's still active

NewRoad Capital Partners

Private Equity, Venture CapitalRogers, United States

NewRoad Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Bentonville, Arkansas. The firm prefers to invest in the retail, CPG, supply chain and logistics, data, e-commerce, health and wellness, water and environment, and business services sectors. It was founded in 2012.

RevTech Labs

AcceleratorUnited States

RevTech Labs is a three month program focuses on early-stage mobile, software and web companies. provides free work space, mentorship and programming all geared toward revolutionary technology startups. The firm was founded in 2012 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sunshot Initiative Incubator Program provides early-stage assistance to help startup companies cross technological barriers to commercialization while encouraging private sector investments. The program was launched in 2007 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. It is the first solo general partner venture fund in Central and Eastern Europe, with Bogdan Iordache at the helm of the €20 million fund.

Admerex Holdings, Inc.

Private Equity, Venture Capital

Admerex Holdings is an operator-led holding company deploying capital across five strategies — angel and venture investments, strategic acquisitions, follow-on portfolio support, and M&A advisory and integration — for Filipino founders and Philippine operating businesses.

Borealis Ventures

Venture CapitalHanover, United States

Borealis Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire. The firm focuses on investing in companies operating within the information technology, design, engineering software, 3D design, construction management, and data driven software sectors.

Digital Ocean Ventures Starter

Venture CapitalKrakow, Poland

We’re 🌊 Digital Ocean Ventures, a venture capital fund on a mission to back early-stage startups in fintech and digital transformation, especially those harnessing the power of AI. We’re all about spotting and supporting companies in their early days, mostly in 🇵🇱 Poland.

Dynamo Ventures

Venture CapitalChattanooga, United States

Dynamo Accelerator & Fund is an accelerator focused on early stage opportunities in logistics, supply chain and transportation technology sectors. The firm runs an annual program for pre-seed through pre-series A companies in partnership with GE Ventures, Ryder and Kenco.

JLR Tech Incubator

IncubatorUnited States

JLR Tech Incubator is an incubator that provides funding, mentoring, engineering, operational, co-working space and other infrastructure services. The firm seeks to invest in early stage startup technology enabled service and software companies based in the United States.

upsparks

Private Equity, Venture CapitalBangalore, India

Upsparks Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in technology startups and providing the needed support throughout their early growth. As an investor and mentor, Upsparks assist startups through financial firepower and mentoring in their early stages.

Black Seed Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited Kingdom

We are both a VC Fund and a Community, holistically supporting Black founders. We fuse technology, culture, empathy and innovation to foster a more diverse & inclusive entrepreneurial landscape. We currently have a UK remit, fundraising for £10 million in our first fund.

Tremis Capital

Angel NetworkIndia

We’re an operator-led, sector-agnostic angel network investing in early and early growth-stage startups. While we're global in outlook, India remains our core focus. We don’t follow a "spray and pray" approach—instead, we back 10-12 carefully selected startups each year.

Velocity I>A

IncubatorUnited States

Velocity is an incubator which provides coworking space at City Center Lehigh Valley in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The firm helps in establishment and growth of innovative businesses by providing office space below market rate and networking opportunities to professionals.

Atta Impact Capital

Venture Capital

Atta Impact Capital (ATTA) is a place-based, impact investing organization increasing access to capital for early-stage, impact-driven companies in emerging markets. Our current fund is an impact-first venture fund backing companies in Central America & Southern Mexico.

KiwiTech

AcceleratorNew York, United States

As a leading startup ecosystem, KiwiTech not only provides information technology services for startups but also supports them with fundraising, mentoring and go-to-market strategy. Our ecosystem is currently home to 400+ portfolio startups and 2000+ investors globally.

UK Games Fund

Dundee, United Kingdom

UKGF is run by UK Games Talent and Finance Community Interest Company. UKGTF is a non-profit organisation with the remit to support the UK’s early stage games development and digital interactive business and creative ecosystem in terms of both companies and individuals.

outrun ventures

AngelLondon, United Kingdom

Outrun Ventures is powered by two angel investors, Chris Adelsbach and Tariq Khan, investing primarily pre-Seed and Seed in early stage start-ups. We admire innovative founding teams who are building, creating and disrupting in areas such as Fintech, Insurance and DeFi.

Dennis McKenna

Corporate VC

e.Republic Ventures is the corporate venture arm of e.Republic. The firm provides mentorship and capital for a select number of early stage companies to accelerate their entry into the public sector market. It was established in 2014 and is based in Folsom, California.

EFI Lake Geneva Ventures

Private Equity, Venture CapitalGeneva, Switzerland

EFI Lake Geneva Ventures is a seed and early-stage investment strategy based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 2020, our mission is to foster innovation by investing at an early stage in fast-growing innovative Swiss companies in Technology, Life Sciences and Medtech.

Highgate Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Highgate Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Igate based in Westport, Connecticut. The firm is focused on early stage technology investments in the hospitality industry. It seeks to invest in the internet infrastructure, enterprise software and e-services sectors.

Red Dog Capital

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Red Dog Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage software companies. The firm specializes in seed and pre-Series A opportunities in the technology and healthcare with a focus on B2B, SaaS, mobile and artificial intelligence/machine learning sectors.

Sunil Paul

Venture CapitalUnited States

Spring Ventures is a San Francisco based venture capital firm specializing in incubation and early stage companies. It is a multi-stage/multi-strategy venture fund that invests in novel information technology including web, mobile, social media and cleantech companies.

Augment Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

Founded in 2010, Augment Ventures is an early stage, venture capital firm that invests in the software, software enabled hardware and physical and material science innovation sectors. The firm specializes in early stage investments and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Avesta Fund

Private Equity, Venture CapitalColorado, United States

The world's critical infrastructure is underbuilt and under-optimized. The energy transition, AI buildout, and reshoring of manufacturing are accelerating demand on systems that weren't designed for the AI era. Problems once manageable have become impossible to defer.

Fie_Labs Innovation Hub

Private Equity, Venture Capital

Fie_Labs is a Pan-African innovation ecosystem that discovers talent, builds startups, and scales solutions in climate, agriculture, and energy. From grassroots innovation in Western Kenya to venture-backed growth across Africa, we turn ideas into scalable businesses.

Scrum Ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Scrum Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon valley. The firm prefers to invest in the commerce, transportation, health care, SaaS, FinTech, and IoT sectors in the U.S. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Black Capital Ventures

Venture CapitalCopenhagen, Denmark

We invest in a better world. We are a small green venture capital fund with a large feel. We are dedicated to making the world we live in a better place. Our investment focus is on high-tech startups in the GreenTech and MedTech space. Reach out to hear more about us

Deciens Capital

Venture CapitalAlbuquerque, United States

Deciens Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on making angel and seed investments in the information technology, financial technology and education technology sectors. The firm is based in San Francisco, California and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tomcat Capital

Venture CapitalLevallois-Perret, France

We are an investment funds and an accelerator, backing early stage tech startups raising pre-seed, seed and series A rounds. We propose several accelerations programs to help startups reach x2 MRR during the acceleration and co-build solid foundations for the future.

Boomtown Accelerator

AcceleratorUnited States

Boomtown Accelerator is a startup accelerator that prefers to invest in the big data, media, internet, mobile, software, internet of things, ad-tech, marketing, healthcare technology and design sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Drive Capital

Venture CapitalColumbus, United States

Drive Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments. The firm focuses on investing in companies operating in the information technology, financial services and healthcare sectors. It is based in Columbus, Ohio and was founded in 2011.

Hudson Valley Startup Fund

Angel Network

Hudson Valley Seed Startup Fund provides seed funding and mentoring to entrepreneurs in order to create strong companies in New York's Hudson Valley region. Preferred industries include agriculture, biotechnology, computers, fashion, food and beverage, and software.

be curious partners

Venture CapitalAtlanta, United States

Be Curious Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and startup companies primarily located in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The firm looks for companies that are passionate about solving big parenting challenges through tech-enabled solutions.

mtt ventures

Private Equity, Venture CapitalChicago, United States

Early stage investment should be simple and straightforward. Our partners generally are looking to diversify their portfolio away from S&P 500 or other equity exposure. Through minimized carry and annual fees, more investor money goes towards driving startup growth.

muir ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Muir Ventures is an Australian marcomms business incubator and accelerator that works with female entrepreneurs, equipping them with the funding, mentorship and resources needed to create new marketing and communications agencies and to grow and scale existing ones.

International Accelerator

Venture CapitalAustin, United States

International Accelerator is an accelerator based in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded in 2013 and is focused solely on non-U.S. citizen entrepreneurs. It provides access to seed funding, quality mentors and services for the need to start up in the United States.

NGT

Private Equity, Venture CapitalNazareth, Israel

NGT HealthCare II is an early-stage medical device and life sciences venture capital fund, investing in promising technologies.NGT enjoys a very significant risk reduction mechanism , by means of high non-dilutive leverage via Israel’s Innovation Authority (“IIA”).

Silver Spring Innovation Center is an incubator that provides office space, business support service and lease facility to technology enabled small startup companies based on the East Coast of the United States. The firm is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Sling Health Network

IncubatorUnited States

IDEA Labs is a bioengineering design and entrepreneurship incubator founded in 2013 at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Students, faculty, staff and Saint Louis entrepreneurs team up to tackle unmet needs in healthcare delivery and clinical medicine.

Square One DSM

AcceleratorUnited States

Square One DSM is an accelerator based in Des Moines, Iowa. The firm provides direct mentoring and consulting, along with networking opportunities. It also offers a resident accelerator program for local, high-potential companies that are past the incubation stage.

X Squared Angels Group is an angel group investor which invests primarily in early-stage companies in the information technology, software, bioscience, advanced materials, medical devices, and most other markets located in Ohio as well as the rest of North America.

biosphere capital ventures

Venture CapitalJerusalem, Israel

Since 1995, we have been at the forefront of Israeli innovation, as founders and early investors in advanced tech companies. We are committed to identifying transformative technologies, nurturing gifted entrepreneurs, and building companies into technology leaders.

Ascent Venture Partners

Venture CapitalBoston, United States

Ascent Venture Partners is a Boston, Massachusetts based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies operating in the software, cloud business services, data analytic, mobile, financial services, healthcare, media, retail and manufacturing sectors.

Bouken Capital

Venture CapitalUnited States

We focus on the AI systems and intelligence stack that will define the future of automation, decarbonization, and digital trust, we're amplifying our reach, leveraging our scalable Chimera community and expert advisory arm to empower a wider network of innovators.

Embryo Ventures

Private Equity, Venture CapitalLondon, United Kingdom

Embryo Ventures is a London-based early-stage VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed startups. We back exceptional founders building at the frontiers of human progress, focusing on HealthTech, DeepTech, and Frontier Innovation across the UK, Europe, and worldwide.

Fountech Labs

Private Equity, Venture CapitalRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

We assess, build and back the ventures behind the Kingdom's next economy. One programme, run as two interconnected races: The Qualifying Races take early ventures from the lab to a verified TRL 6; The Championship Races take the strongest from TRL 7 to investment.